Re: Almost certain I have adult ADHD

[Anonymous]

Wow, billd, I’m sure you must be on a cloud today, having had so many frustrations getting where you are now. I agree, we can only armchair diagnose ourselves so far, there’s a lot we don’t know and can’t see in ourselves.

Crush, I am similar, I find as the day goes on, I get clearer in the head, often though I get really tired at night but sometimes I can work through that by surfing on the internet and getting into a project and then I am awake. But when I wake up in the morning I really have trouble getting going. That’s not how it always is, it varies, but I have trouble getting to sleep at night and staying asleep, and staying awake or being alert during the day, sometimes I fall asleep during the day.

My ADD specialist said I’m a textbook case of ADD but he wanted me to have a sleep study to rule out anything else. My family physician wanted the sleep study to make sure I didn’t have sleep apnea (sedation for sleep is not good if you have that). Well, outcome is I have textbook narcolepsy as well as ADD, but the narcolepsy is at the top of the list, according to the sleep specialist. Both can co-exist. The narcolepsy makes it particularly dangerous for me to do certain things like driving or operating heavy machinery. I gave up trying to self-diagnose narcolepsy and it was mis-diagnosed 20 years ago. So Crush, you need to be persistent in getting diagnosed, but it might not be what you think it is.

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